Zuerst!

Zuerst!

Editor-in-chief	Andreas Karsten
Categories	News magazine
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	1 January 2010; 14 years ago (2010-01-01)
Country	Germany
Based in	Selent
Language	German
Website	Zuerst
ISSN	1869-5493
OCLC	690427829

Zuerst! (German: First!) is a monthly German news magazine published in Selent, Germany. The magazine has a far-right-wing political stance.

History

Zuerst! was founded in January 2010 as a successor to the now-defunct Nation und Europa magazine.^[1] It was supported by right-wing publishers in Germany.^[2] The publisher of the magazine was Lesen und Schenken.^[3][4] At that time the distributor of the magazine was Bauer media group which also owned it later.^[4][5] In September 2012, the group sold Zuerst! due to criticism by Der Spiegel.^[5][6]

Editors of the magazine also write for other right-wing publications.^[2] The former editors-in-chief of Zuerst! are Günther Deschner^[2] and Manuel Ochsenreiter.^[7][8] Andreas Karsten was named as the editor-in-chief in December 2021.^[9][10]

The monthly, which provides news on the economy, current affairs, travel and culture, is also distributed in Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland and South Tyrol.^[3][11]

Political leaning and controversy

Zuerst! reported its political leaning and policy as follows: "The German news magazine ZUERST! will serve German - not foreign - interests."^[1] Immediately after its first issue the Office for the Protection of the Constitution announced that the content of the magazine was against the "unending de-nazification efforts", advocating revisionist theories on national boundaries, and the terrorist activities of the "South Tirolean Freedom Fighters" in the 1960s.^[1]

In 2019 the editor Manuel Ochsenreiter was accused of sponsoring a group of radical Poles who staged a false flag arson attack of Hungarian culture center in Uzhhorod in order to discredit the government of Ukraine. The Poles testified in court that Ochsenreiter, who had long lasting ties to Russian government and separatists in Ukraine, passed them money and instructed them as to the way of conducting the arson for it to have most media impact.^[12] According to OCCRP investigation, Ochsenreiter received thousands of euros from Russia's International Agency for Current Policy for publishing pro-Russian articles. In 2019, when investigation into the false flag attack in Ukraine was initiated, Ochsenreiter fled to Moscow and lived there until he died in suspicious circumstances in August 2021.^[13][14]

See also

• List of magazines in Germany

References

1. David Vickrey (14 February 2010). "Zuerst! Magazine: First shall be last". Dialog International. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
2. Kate Connolly (7 January 2010). "New German magazine puts gloss on far right, say critics". The Guardian. Berlin. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
3. "ZUERST!". Lesen und Schenken. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
4. Roy Greenslade (9 August 2013). "Bauer under renewed fire over magazines that glorify Nazi regime". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
5. Colin Morrison (28 February 2013). "Meet the Bauer family: the now global magazine dynasty comes down under". mUmBRELLA. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
6. "How will Europe's secretive media giant cope?". Flashes and Flames. 15 February 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
7. "M. Ochsenreiter". Manuel Ochsenreiter. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
8. "What did German chemists supply to Syria ?". Russian Radio. 1 October 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
9. "Impressum". Zuerst! (in German). Retrieved 4 February 2023.
10. @korpokritik (29 December 2021). "Andreas Karsten, Jahrgang 1992, ist der neue Chefredakteur des extrem rechten Magazin „Zuerst"" (Tweet) (in German). Retrieved 4 February 2023 – via Twitter.
11. "Magazine launched with aim of "neatly putting the screws" on Germany". WAN IFRA. 8 January 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
12. "AfD worker accused of ordering arson attack in Ukraine". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
13. Martin Laine; et al. "Kremlin-Linked Group Arranged Payments to European Politicians to Support Russia's Annexation of Crimea". OCCRP. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
14. "In eigener Sache: ZUERST!-Chefredakteur Manuel Ochsenreiter ist tot". Zuerst! (in German). 29 November 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Media related to Zuerst! at Wikimedia Commons